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Dr. Rick Sacra, the third American to contract Ebola, landed in Nebraska last week and will be moved to the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha for treatment. Experts insist there is no risk to the public, NBC News reports, but a new study in PLOS Currents finds that Ebola could soon make its way inside US borders on its own. The study looked at global flight patterns and passenger screening and found that the chance of at least one case arriving in the country by Sept. 22 was as high as 18%, NPR reports.

"What is happening in West Africa is going to get here. We can't escape that at this point," the study's lead author says, adding it would likely occur in "small clusters of cases, between one and three." The study also points to a 25% to 28% chance of the virus reaching the United Kingdom and a 50% chance of it spreading to Ghana before the month is over. If the virus isn't contained, the likelihood of its spread will "increase consistently," the study notes. On a more optimistic note, Sacra's wife says, "Rick is clearly sick" but "was in good spirits and he walked onto the plane" that took him to Nebraska. "We are really encouraged by that news." (Meanwhile, Sierra Leone is going on lockdown to fight Ebola.)

There is a concerted effort by this government and some private "charitable" organizations to facilitate an outbreak in first world countries. The transportation of infected people now in four or five cases both to the US and Britain is occurring without proper consideration for safety and infectious disease protocols. As a policy, one that has served medicine well for years now, the transportation of highl;y infectious individuals should be severely limited, regional quarantines should be enforced, and quite frankly travel bans to countries may be necessary. All a little to real for the "children" who are currently officiating here.

Ind_JASS

Sep 7, 2014 6:27 PM CDT

If they have adequate facilities in Africa. They should stay there until there healthy again. This is a very dangerous epidemic. Most people can't fathom the tenacity of this. It is nothing to fool with. Why do you think they all health workers have specially constructed suits on?

Luke101

Sep 6, 2014 12:14 PM CDT

Considering the transfer properties of this illness, I don't think it will become epidemic. I do wish the State Dept. would exercise a little more caution re: importation of third world "immigrants" and "students". They don't pay enough attention on who is coming here or who is staying here, nevermind Obozo's engineered invasion from Mexico.